Educator Series: Claire Van Zant

Mrs. Van Zant's Humanities Series Reading List

Mayo High School, Rochester, Minnesota

NOTE: When an entry is a published work and easily accessible for purchase, I have not attempted to provide a downloadable copy. Only in the instances in which something is out-of-print and/or rare have I offered it as a PDF. In each case, I have done so with the understanding that noncommercial use here is acceptable. Please download for personal enjoyment only. PDFs are marked with a *

Humanities I, Ancient Athens	The Odyssey, Homer The Crito, Plato The Republic, Plato The Ethics, Aristotle Oedipus Rex, Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles The Seven Against Thebes, Aeschylus * Antigone, Sophocles The Humanities In Three Cities, An Inquiry Approach, Edwin Fenton and John M. Good *
Humanities I, New York and Contemporary America	Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 1984, George Orwell The Humanities In Three Cities, An Inquiry Approach, Edwin Fenton and John M. Good *
Humanities II, Man and God	Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis * Oedipus Rex, Sophocles Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster Volpone, Ben Jonson * Paradise Lost, John Milton A Man For All Seasons, Robert Bolt The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, C.S. Lewis * From Atheism to Christianity: The Story of C. S. Lewis, Joel Heck
Humanities II, Measure of Modern Man	Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky The Bucket Rider, Franz Kafka * The Visit, Friedrich Durrenmatt * No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre * Allegory of the Cave [Republic, VII, 514 a, 2 to 517 a, 7], Plato * The Adding Machine, Elmer Rice The Stranger, Albert Camus The Queen of Spades, Alexander Pushkin *
Humanities III, Beyond Enlightenment	Old Goriot, Honoré de Balzac Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac Hard Times, Charles Dickens Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert Ulysses, James Joyce